Public Criminology: Reimagining Public Education and Research Practice

by Debbie Jones (Editor), Mark Jones (Editor), Kate Strudwick (Editor), Anthony Charles (Editor)

Overview

This book discusses the role and impact of ‘Public Criminology’. It brings together a collection of key scholars who have been at the fore of empirical and practice work in relation to understanding how ‘Public Criminology’ can engender academic activism. Split into two parts, it focusses on academic activism and research methodologies, and public criminology and pedagogical practice. It includes chapters on a range of topics including Inside-Out teaching, it discusses the role of social scientists and stepping outside of established research practices, and how students, the public and children can be engaged in criminological learning and issues to become agents of social change. It includes a reflection on how ‘Public Criminology’ has developed both in the UK and USA. It speaks to students, researchers and academics alike involved in teaching and learning within the discipline of Criminology and those who wish to evaluate practice and ensure their interventions have impact on commissioners and policymakers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031421679
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/19/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Debbie Jones is Professor of Criminology and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Swansea University, UK.

Mark Jones is Director at Higher Plain Research and Education and Visiting Professor of Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, University South Wales, UK.

Katie Strudwick is Associate Professor and Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Lincoln, UK.  She previously held roles including Programme Leader and Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Social and Political Sciences. 

Anthony Charles is Associate Professor of Youth Justice and Children’s Rights in the Department of Criminology at Swansea University, UK. 

Table of Contents

Introduction to the book – Jones, Jones, Strudwick and Charles.- Part One: Academic Activism, Research Methodologies and Dissemination.- Chapter 1. Public Criminology: A Conversation – Dr Helen Jones and Dr Kathy Johnson.- Chapter 2. Walking the Walk: The Student Sex Work Project – Professor Tracey Sagar and associate Professor Debbie Jones.-  Chapter 3. ‘Discerning transformative potential – Reflecting on the impact of children’s engagement in public Criminology’? – Dr Anthony Charles.- Chapter 4. Inside-Out teaching as ‘public criminology’? Reflections on transformation from teachers and students – Dr Joey Whitfield and Katherine Pickering.- Chapter 5. Not gathering dust on the library shelf: continually evolving multi-media dissemination of research - Engaging the general public in criminological issues – Dr Victoria Silverwood.- Part 2: Public Criminology and Pedagogical Practice.-  Chapter 6. The Role of Students in Public Criminology - Dr Suzanne Young.- Chapter 7. “The transformative power of public criminology: reflections on a developing criminological career” – Joe Janes.- Chapter 8. Prison Education in Partnership: Chances and Challenges - Kirsty Teague, Dr Paul Hamilton, and Dr Anne O’Grady.- Chapter 9. The Myopia of Public Criminology and the need for a Partisan Criminological Pedagogy- Marc Jacobs.- Conclusion- Jones, Jones, Strudwick and Charles.  

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This highly accessible, innovative and engaging book brings together a unique collection of key work by experienced and early career researchers and educators who have been at the fore of empirical and practice work in relation to understanding ‘Public Criminology’. This original collection represents significant theoretical, methodological, pedagogical and practice contributions to shine a much-needed light on the role and impact of Public Criminology in teaching and research practice." (—Dr Cheryl Allsop Senior Lecturer in Criminology University of South Wales.)

"This important and valuable new collection takes the ongoing dialogue about ‘public criminology’ in two new directions. Rather than focusing on relationships between criminology and criminal justice policy and practice, the editors and contributors ask what it means to practice public criminology in how we research and in how we teach. In a sense then, this book invites us to attend to our own house, to our core tasks; and to clarify what it means in these activities to work for the public good or for what we Scots call ’the common weal’. As such, this is a timely book that should be of great interest anyone committed to exploring whether and how criminology can contribute to the development of safer and more just societies in which people and communities can thrive." (—Professor Fergus McNeill, Associate Director of SCCJR and Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow)

"For any discipline, the challenge is to move beyond its borders into the messy territory of practice, of partnerships, of engaging with the constituents of the discipline rather than just its proponents. This book engages thoughtfully and practically with this challenge, bringing the experience of its authors in all its messy incompleteness back to criminology and making the science respond to those to whom it is responsible." (—Professor Howard Sercombe, Head of School of Social Work, Excelsia College, Sydney.)